Fotis Sees Her Lover Lucius Transformed Into An Ass. Motif From Apuleius’ The Golden Ass, by Nicolai Abildgaard (c. 1743 – 1809)

This painting, by the Danish artist Nicolai Abildgaard (c. 1743 – 1809), was inspired by the peculiar ancient Roman tale of Fotis and Lucius,...

A Summary Of 15th-Century Witchcraft Beliefs By Pope Innocent VIII

Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...

(Video) The Absolute Cheesiest Tale About Charlemagne

In this narrated video essay, we present the absolute cheesiest tale about Charlemagne (r. 768-814) that was recorded by the medieval monk and historian,...

Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "The sectarians deafen one another with their noise and clamor, keep anxiety away with their screeching." From Soren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling...

The Crazed Fish-Woman Of The Yūrā People

  Word-of-mouth stories can produce incredibly odd tales when passed from culture to culture over the span of many years. One such gem of folklore...

Ammut, Thoth, Anubis and Horus, From An Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Scroll

This scene, from an ancient Egyptian funerary scroll housed in the Neues Museum of Berlin (and generously photographed by Gary Todd of WorldHistoryPics.com), depicts...

Virgil

Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE) "That man has all the luck who can understand what makes the world tick, who has crushed underfoot his fears about what's laid...

Christine de Pizan

  Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430) "Don't you know it's the very finest things which are the subject of the most intense discussion?" The Book of...

Han Fei Tzu

Han Fei Tzu (c. 280-233 BCE) "Be empty, still, and idle, and from your place of darkness observe the defects in others." From Han Fei...
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